ITunes fails to play hand-made movies with AC-3 surround sound

Recently I noticed that iTunes isn't any longer able to play my self-encoded movies with an AC-3 audio track. Playing the movie with the first audio track (AAC stereo) is no problem but switching to the second audio track (AC3) just causes iTunes to stop. This effect appears not while playing movies bought at the iTunes Store.
Is this a bug or a "feature" introduced by Apple to force us to buy movies in the iTunes store instead of encoding our DVDs?

I have the same problem. The OSX10.6.7 is the culprit. All was
well before update, after, got the problem you described. As yet,
there doesn't seem to be any solution.
It appears that 10.6.7 fixed a problem of stalling and or studdering
with iTunes purchased HD material, but it broke imported content
ac-3/dolby material.

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